Dr. Charles Morrison

Contact Information

Languages Spoken

English

Academic Background

BMus (Manitoba), MA, PhD (British Columbia)

Biography

Charles Morrison completed his BMus degree in composition at the
University of Manitoba and his MA and PhD degrees in music theory at UBC.He has presented papers at national and
international conferences and published on music aesthetics, modes of musical
listening, and analysis of 20th-century music, especially that of Bartók,
Ligeti, and Schoenberg.Morrison’s
current research involves an aesthetic-perceptual study of Keith Jarrett’s solo
improvisations and a project on the construction of the musical-temporal
present. He is also engaged in research on theories of teaching and learning
and on broader issues related to post-secondary education. He served as Dean of
Laurier’s Faculty of Music from 1999 to 2010.